Post by Sediba on Feb 14, 2019 20:59:40 GMT 10
Let me try to explain this ...
A sea-container can 'contain' a very expensive product. Probably a minimum of $20,000 otherwise it wouldn't be worth shipping. A maximum value could be millions.
But Ships that carry sea-containers like to carry a full load.
One of the most difficult puzzles of all is how to find enough customers who all want to ship sea-containers to a single destination at approx the same time... so that the ship can cross the world with a full cargo.
The algorithims that calculate how long any individual container should be 'held' at dock until a full load can be mustered are very complex. Because every container can have a different 'owner' with different needs, each one becomes a variable in the calculations.
So complex that in order for a ship to carry 19,000 containers (19,000 TEU) at once was believed unreachable.
New AI software has just broken the 19,000 TEU mark. It's not just a matter of adding another container to break the record, every container must pay for it's passage.
Shipping is also the great-quiet-achiever when it comes to going green. Ships diesels are the most efficient in the world. Ships are so huge that every single saving amounts to a fortune .. This has driven the efficiency of ships engines to a remarkable extent ... and by a happy co-incidence, that means going green
Watch this, it's only half a minute, but here is real AI. This is a tribute to man's ability of what can be done when it pays to do it.
BTW: This record has already been broken by another ship, the MOL Tribute, at 19,146 TEU
.
A sea-container can 'contain' a very expensive product. Probably a minimum of $20,000 otherwise it wouldn't be worth shipping. A maximum value could be millions.
But Ships that carry sea-containers like to carry a full load.
One of the most difficult puzzles of all is how to find enough customers who all want to ship sea-containers to a single destination at approx the same time... so that the ship can cross the world with a full cargo.
The algorithims that calculate how long any individual container should be 'held' at dock until a full load can be mustered are very complex. Because every container can have a different 'owner' with different needs, each one becomes a variable in the calculations.
So complex that in order for a ship to carry 19,000 containers (19,000 TEU) at once was believed unreachable.
New AI software has just broken the 19,000 TEU mark. It's not just a matter of adding another container to break the record, every container must pay for it's passage.
Shipping is also the great-quiet-achiever when it comes to going green. Ships diesels are the most efficient in the world. Ships are so huge that every single saving amounts to a fortune .. This has driven the efficiency of ships engines to a remarkable extent ... and by a happy co-incidence, that means going green
Watch this, it's only half a minute, but here is real AI. This is a tribute to man's ability of what can be done when it pays to do it.
BTW: This record has already been broken by another ship, the MOL Tribute, at 19,146 TEU
.